Senior Director, QA

PayScale, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr. Director of QA to lead their quality strategy across functional and automation testing. This role involves managing a large QA team, defining metrics and KPIs, and ensuring quality governance throughout the software development lifecycle. The company promotes a remote-first culture, allowing flexibility for employees to work from home or co-working spaces. Join a collaborative environment that values data-driven decisions and continuous improvement, where your strategic vision can make a significant impact on product quality and team performance.

Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Company-Paid Co-Working Spaces

Annual Corporate Bonus

Generous Compensation Package

Awesome Company Culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years in strategic QA leadership with a focus on team management.
• Strong analytical and communication skills to engage technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term QA strategy and roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Manage resources for functional QA, automation, and performance testing.

Skills

Strategic QA Leadership

Team Management

Agile Processes

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Education

MS/BS Degree in Computer Science

Tools

QA Automation Tools

Performance Testing Tools

Data Quality Testing Tools

Job description

The Sr. Director, QA is responsible for driving the overall quality strategy from functional, to automation, and beyond (e.g. performance testing, data quality testing, etc.). This individual should also have the ability to connect the dots from strategic thinking and planning through to on the ground execution, coordinating across R&D to ensure that outcomes are measured, governed, and associated process and QA infrastructure continues to improve.

In this role you will work closely with a talented group of function and automation QA engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and several engineers to continuously identify opportunities for improvement and implement your strategic vision for quality at Payscale. We are a data driven organization that highly values meaningful metrics and KPIs as a means to understand impact and measure progress. We also believe in providing a lot of autonomy and transparency to our teams, but rely on said data driven, objective governance to keep us accountable and on track.

In this role you’ll have direct management over a large, distributed QA Engineering team, who will subsequently have dotted line relationships into the engineering managers for the teams where they are doing their day-to-day work. A big part of your job as the Sr. Director of QA will be to ensure we have the right strategy in place AND that it translates into tactical, governed best practices for your QA Engineering team to be implemented in the scrum teams they’re working in.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain a long-term QA strategy and associated roadmap that aligns with business objectives and vision.
• Manage and direct all resources related to QA including but not limited to functional QA, QA automation, performance testing, and data quality testing.
• Align stakeholders on priorities and relative investment in QA initiatives.
• Work with the Engineering team to define and implement necessary metrics/KPIs and associated governance.
• Manage the process for how functional testing is integrated into the SDLC, ensuring enough flexibility to remain agile while also having enough structure to enable uniform governance.
• Assist in the management of product releases to ensure consistent UAT and post-release quality governance.
• Stay informed on Payscale's strategic roadmap as a means to understand what areas would likely require more complex QA approaches or present a liability.
• Work with vendors and partners to identify economies of scale and ways we can enhance our quality posture at scale.
• Work with program management and product operations to ensure smooth QA operational execution across R&D, leveraging automation where possible to enable QA process scalability.
• Other duties as may be assigned by the Company from time to time.

Qualifications, Abilities, and Skills Required:

Education:

• A MS/BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field is highly desired.

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience in a strategic QA leadership role.
• Experience building and managing QA teams, both functional and automated.
• Experience with Agile and/or Lean processes.

Key Competencies and Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• An understanding of technology used in full stack web development.
• Detail-oriented personality complimented by strong analytical skills.
• Above excellent interpersonal and communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Experience managing and/or leading a team.
• Ability to problem solve and present solutions.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple R&D units to achieve results.
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, innovative, and rapidly evolving industry and business organization.
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of quality throughout the SDLC.
• Solid technical background with an understanding of software development and web technologies.
• Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams with a wide range of skills and objectives.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills must be able to build trust as well as internal and external relationships.
• A goal-driven and detail-oriented approach to product management.
• A passion for innovation and a mind for creative problem-solving.
• A sense of pride and ownership for everything under your management.
• Focus on rapid and continuous improvement with an emphasis on quality and scalability.

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $200,200- $300,200, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. This position is also eligible for an annual corporate bonus of 10%. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package.

Company Description

Payscale gives employers and employees confidence to know the what and why behind pay. With our leading data, technology, and experience we make it easier for you to connect compensation to goals.

As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses get pay right and to make sustainable fair pay a reality.

Location

Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter.

In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs.

Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Respect every individual, work as a team.
• Be Customer first, customer centric.
• Have a Bias towards action.
• Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday).
• Make Data driven decisions.